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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

posted 28 Aug 2007 updated 20 Jul 2022 by Tabloid Editor 5 minute read

It’s a while since I did a round-up of celebrity news, which means that I’ve almost forgotten all the things I was going to mention, and lost most of the links that I was going to use. So before things get completely out of hand, here’s one of my not-so-regular posts shamelessly plundering the celebrity … [Read More]

Celebrity news round-up: January 07

posted 9 Feb 2007 updated 3 Jul 2020 by Tabloid Editor 3 minute read

Rain, LKL’s man of the year 2006 has started 2007 on a low-note with a speeding ticket in Hong Kong at the start of his gruelling tour. He also underwhelmed one reporter at a Singapore press conference who found him just a little dull. This wasn’t a reflection on his performance on-stage (and I’ve yet … [Read More]

Chosun Ilbo’s top K-pop of the year

posted 23 Dec 2006 updated 18 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 2 minute read

Here’s their list: Best Album Best Song 1 Vibe: Re-feel Vibe: He & She (equal with Lee Sung-chul) 2 Lee Seung-chul: Reflections of Sound Lee Seung-chul: Shout it out (equal with Vibe) 3 SG Wannabe: 3rd Masterpiece Baek Ji-young: I won’t fall in love again 4 Nell: Healing Process Eru: Black Glasses 5 Sung Si-kyung: … [Read More]

Hyori withdraws “plagiarism” single

posted 27 Mar 2006 updated 8 Jul 2019 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Lee Hyori has decided that discretion is the better part of valour, and has withdrawn performances of her single Get Ya!, from her album Dark Angel, which allegedly steals from Britney Spears’s Do Somethin’. [Read More]

Korean protests baffle Belgians

posted 23 Mar 2006 updated 9 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

I can’t put it better than the Chosun Ilbo’s own headline. One of the more peculiar stories. In fact today’s Chosun is packed with entertaining stories: Britney Spears’s songwriters accuse Lee Hyo-lee of plagiarism; and a sex survey by pharmaceutical company Bayer finds Korean men the most selfish in bed. [Read More]

Fourth most ideal rear belongs to transgender star

posted 17 Oct 2004 updated 7 Jul 2019 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

Sorry to be a bit tabloid, but I just had to preserve this article from the Chosun Ilbo, which illustrates the Korean obsession with plastic surgery. Visitors to a plastic surgeon’s website were asked whose bum they would most like to have. The preferred posterior profiles were owned by the following celebs, in order: Jeon … [Read More]